Well is it possible to add a directory called LATEST in the byond builds area, with the latest byond builds in there.
It'd be really appreciated if the files were also seperated in there with directory's depending on what OS it is meant for, so the one I'm needing this request for is Linux, so it'd be :
http://www.byond.com/download/build/LATEST/Linux/
Thanks.
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 Aug 24 2010, 3:05 pm
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Aug 25 2010, 12:36 am
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Falacy
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You can't just scroll to the bottom of the /build page?
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Falacy wrote:
You can't just scroll to the bottom of the /build page? I'm guessing he wants to make some script to check for an update. Chromium does it that way, and it works well enough. It could just be a text file, so they wouldn't have to continuously move largish zip files around, and the text file could just be something like a .props file - win32=this linux=this blah=cake That might make a little bit more sense. | |
DivineTraveller wrote:
Falacy wrote: Yeah that'd work too, and yep that is what I'm making, it not a matter of being too lazy to scroll down to the bottom, as I'm sure the amount of time it takes to load those directories, I could have BYOND already downloaded. | |
Or just a symlinked LATEST zip file may do, then you can pull the HTTP headers and check when it was last modified.
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I'd hate to do this just because it would only encourage even more people to fill in their bug reports with "latest".
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Lummox JR wrote:
I'd hate to do this just because it would only encourage even more people to fill in their bug reports with "latest". Leave a note, when filling out a bug report that you won't be able to help out anyone if they just use LATEST as the byond version. | |
There already is a note to fill out the real version number--people still screw this up anyway.
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Well if the issue is happening anyways, this can't really make such a huge difference.
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I don't see why you can't auto-detect a default version setting.
And how many people are downloading from, or even know about, the download/build page? | |
Falacy wrote:
I don't see why you can't auto-detect a default version setting. Getting the browser to talk to the installation isn't really as simple as you think. We do have the browser plugin, but that was only designed to detect whether the installation is present; having it pass information would be much harder. And how many people are downloading from, or even know about, the download/build page? Seems like plenty. But the bottom line is I don't think it'd be productive to encourage people not to look at their version number, whereas anyone should easily be able to jump to the bottom of the list with no trouble. Since what he really wants is a way to check on the latest version, we already do have something like that that we use for our hub updates--the version for Dantom.BYOND. I don't know if we're doing anything similar for the Linux builds. | |
Lummox JR wrote:
I'd hate to do this just because it would only encourage even more people to fill in their bug reports with "latest". Why does adding a directory called "LATEST" to the site affect the bug report form? | |
Forum_account wrote:
Why does adding a directory called "LATEST" to the site affect the bug report form? It doesn't; not directly. It would just reinforce in some people's minds the idea that "latest" is acceptable. It's moot though because what Qubic is suggesting and what he actually wants are two different things. | |
Lummox JR wrote:
Since what he really wants is a way to check on the latest version, we already do have something like that that we use for our hub updates--the version for Dantom.BYOND. I don't know if we're doing anything similar for the Linux builds. Having a cron job wget "http://byond.com/download/build/byond_latest_linux.zip" is a easier than one that has to hit a currently non-existent* separate page, parse some proprietary text format, and then download wget "http://byond.com/download/build/byond_[derp]_linux.zip" If you're super serial about more people filling "latest" in the version field in a bug report, just don't put it somewhere highly visible. Since the pager has an auto-update, you don't even need to do "byond_latest.exe" [Windows] since it's unnecessary- although I still think paranoia about the potential for an increase of a little lack of information to be ridiculous. Why not check to see that the value of the version field is a number, anyway? Or maybe just get BYOND submitted to the Debian repository. Or maybe write an updater for Linux. Or maybe it'd be much freaking simpler if you'd just symlink "byond_latest_linux.zip" to the latest Linux build. * You noted yourself that the hub page for Dantom.byond is useless for Linux builds (it currently lists 474 which does not exist for Linux), and considering you didn't respond here, I don't expect, nor want, an additional page to be created. | |
Seems like a lot of talk for a symlink. We can do this. In fact, we already have a "latest" equivalent that the windows build uses for third-party links and the "make exe" setup.
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Tom wrote:
Seems like a lot of talk for a symlink. We can do this. In fact, we already have a "latest" equivalent that the windows build uses for third-party links and the "make exe" setup. Thank you very much! | |
For me, byond.exe is accusing itself of being the actual byond.exe, causing it to say BYOND is running and it needs to close. Renaming it helps.
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Good point; I'll rename it to byond_win.exe
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Darn, I was hoping to see something like a text file that could be read with the latest version for each.
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